intelligent

  • (a) having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree
    • is there intelligent life in the universe?
    • an intelligent question
  • (s) possessing sound knowledge
    • well-informed readers
    well-informed,
  • (s) exercising or showing good judgment
    • healthy scepticism
    • a healthy fear of rattlesnakes
    • the healthy attitude of French laws
    • healthy relations between labor and management
    • an intelligent solution
    • a sound approach to the problem
    • sound advice
    • no sound explanation for his decision
    levelheaded, level-headed, sound, healthy,
  • (s) endowed with the capacity to reason reasoning, thinking,

Synonyms

well-informed levelheaded level-headed sound healthy reasoning thinking

Antonyms

unintelligent stupid

See also

precocious smart

Words of close approximity

intelligently intelligentsia